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Electrifying Almost Everything for Net-Zero - Ep34: Kristian Ruby

Cleaning Up: Leadership in an Age of Climate Change

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Rent Control Is the Single Best Way to Decarbonize London

I look at the people who are saying that renewables wouldn't work they were actually ignoring the physics and the microeconomics. I don't see where you're supposed to get all of the extra resources that you know to produce that hydrogen because of rent control issues. It's just about basically jotting some sort of heating component down into that water and channeling all the surplus electricity into that. That link between renewable energy or decarbonized electricity production and district heating systems is one that should get much more attention in my view. We have an infrastructure that it would be a pity not to use with variable renewables and direct electrification.

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